Publications of Nath. Belknap

Note: The following printer, bookseller, or publisher lists are works in progress. They are generated from title page imprints and may reproduce false and misleading attributions or contain errors.

What does "printed by" mean? How to read the roles ascribed to people in the imprints.

In terms of the book trades, the lists below are sorted into up to four groups where: the person is designated in the imprint as having a single role:

  1. "printed by x"; or
  2. "sold by x"; or
  3. "printed for x" or "published by x";

or as having the seller and printer roles in combination, or an absence of the printer's name following "London: printed:" or "London: printed,":

  1. "printed and sold by x"; or "printed for and sold by x"; or "printed by and for x"; or "printed: and sold by x"; or "printed, and sold by x";  and so on.

On this last point, trade publishers may seem to have "printed" or "published" the work, though they did not own the copyright. The lists below reflect only the information on the imprint, except where ESTC provides extra information.

See also "The Meaning of the Imprint."

Printed for Nath. Belknap

  • Mather, Cotton. Love triumphant. A sermon at the gathering of a new church, and the ordaining of their pastor; in the north part of Boston; May 23. 1722. With copies of other things offered in the publick actions of that solemn occasion. [Two lines from Augustine]. Boston: Printed by S. Kneeland, for Nath. Belknap, at his shop the corner of Clarke's Wharffe, and next door to the Mitre Coffee-House, 1722. ESTC No. W13664. Grub Street ID 323016.